One of the most exciting parts of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is that John Williams will be once again composing the score for the movie. But Disney is also releasing a number of spinoffs, and it's been unclear if Williams would be scoring all these movies. We now have our answer, and another compose has been hired to score Rogue One.
According to Slashfilm, Alexandre Desplat will compose the score for Star Wars: Rouge One.
Desplat has done the score for a number of movies, having recently worked on The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Imitation Game, the latter of which he received an Academy Award nomination for. He has also done the score for Argo, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Zero Dark Thirty among many others. So he's a pretty great composer who has done projects all across the board, from the thoughtful and subdued Tree of Life to the bombastic Godzilla.
This news shouldn't be too surprising, as it would be pretty ridiculous to except Williams to do the score for every single upcoming Star Wars movie. We can probably expect him to stick around for Episode VIII and Episode IX, with Disney hiring other worthy composers to work on the spinoff movies. In some ways this is kind of the best of both worlds then, as we'll be getting our traditional John Williams score while also getting to see the Star Wars themes approached from a new perspective by other composers.
Rogue One will be the first Star Wars spinoff movie, to be released a year after The Force Awakens. Not a whole lot has been confirmed about the plot of the movie, but we do know it will star The Theory of Everything's Felicity Jones and be directed by Gareth Edwards, as we previously reported. Edwards previously collaborated with Desplat on 2014's Godzilla.
Star Wars: Rogue One will hit theaters on Dec. 16, 2016.
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